»Human rights defenders (HRDs) are increasingly empowered by, and dependent upon, digital technologies. These technologies have opened up new potentials, enabling HRDs to extend their capacity to document and analyse human rights abuses, to amplify them, and to more effectively organize locally and internationally. Digital technologies, however, have simultaneously created new points of weakness: exposing HRDs' whereabouts, activities and networks, and creating evidence against them through data leakages, digital traces, and direct surveillance and interception. Attacks on HRDs have escalated over the past two years, with a significant increase in the number of entrapments and networks being compromised through the use of computers, cameras, mobile phones and the internet. This rapidly changing landscape poses a number of challenges to practitioners working in the field of security and protection for HRDs and has led to a growing concern about how best to enable HRDs to assess and mitigate the related risks. After contextualizing and introducing the dimensions of digital insecurity for HRDs, this paper will note some of the responses to HRDs' digital security needs which have been developed, and their limitations. It will then go on to identify three key principles that should inform the work of practitioners in future and to raise a series of critical questions for further research and work in this area.«

»Now the big question is, does SailfishOS offer something it’s competition does not? – Yes! The swipe based UI is a bit weird the first 5 minutes you use it, but once your muscle memory catches up, you’ll notice your fingers swiping all devices you touch and your brain wondering why those other devices require unnecessary amounts of thought to use. Android is easy to use, but even after using SailfishOS just for one day, going back to the Android world of multiple desktops, widgets, app menus and such starts to look rather complex. SailfishOS is just so natural you need to experience it yourself.«

»Our special report shining a light on the secretive Five Eyes alliance, where we lay out how the laws around which the Five Eyes are constructed violate human rights law, and argue the Five Eyes States owe a general duty not to interfere with communications that pass through their territorial borders.«

»But I suspect another important factor is political: Bitcoin appeals because governments are not fully living up to the responsibility that comes with state-sponsored money. Bitcoin, or something like it, will thrive until the authorities do better.«

»Human rights defenders (HRDs) are increasingly empowered by, and dependent upon, digital technologies. These technologies have opened up new potentials, enabling HRDs to extend their capacity to document and analyse human rights abuses, to amplify them, and to more effectively organize locally and internationally. Digital technologies, however, have simultaneously created new points of weakness: exposing HRDs' whereabouts, activities and networks, and creating evidence against them through data leakages, digital traces, and direct surveillance and interception. Attacks on HRDs have escalated over the past two years, with a significant increase in the number of entrapments and networks being compromised through the use of computers, cameras, mobile phones and the internet. This rapidly changing landscape poses a number of challenges to practitioners working in the field of security and protection for HRDs and has led to a growing concern about how best to enable HRDs to assess and mitigate the related risks. After contextualizing and introducing the dimensions of digital insecurity for HRDs, this paper will note some of the responses to HRDs' digital security needs which have been developed, and their limitations. It will then go on to identify three key principles that should inform the work of practitioners in future and to raise a series of critical questions for further research and work in this area.«

»"I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."« – Senator Frank Church on Meet The Press, 1975